Dragaera

creative writing

Mon Dec 13 00:15:55 PST 2004

Hi!

I'm a bit surprised to have not seen this spelled out but....
A LOT of fantasy writers also teach college...
I'm not saying that a lot of the good ones do, but perhaps with a little
background work of your own you might find someone who you like to read who
is currently teaching.

The other thing you'll want to do, if fantasy is your passion, is see if you
can feel out the Department and determine what they think of Fantasy
writing...  I have found, in talking with Fantasy writer/professors I know,
that they are generally seen as hacks by their peers because they write
"unimportant and unintelectual tripe".  Even if you do find a school that
has a couple of professors that have written some decent Fantasy or Sci-Fi,
make sure the rest of the department doesn't disdain them, and by
association any student with such lit forms as their goal.

Good Luck